Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 132 23 45
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.11% 6.23% 9.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.39% 20.35% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 17 37
10th Percentile £405 £185 £185
25th Percentile £461 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.78% +5.88% -25.27%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £543 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 465 113 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.66% 30.62% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 91 87
10th Percentile £365 £185 £187
25th Percentile £417 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +12.36% -19.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +10 129 £517 +14.78% 29
Doncaster - 1 £525 - 4
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.58%) Confluence
2 8 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (61.36%) AWS
2 77 (58.33%) GCP
3 21 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 19 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (14.39%) OpenShift
5 16 (12.12%) GitHub
6 13 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.30%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.55%) SaaS
10 5 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.03%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.03%) ChatGPT
11 4 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.03%) Serverless
12 3 (2.27%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.06%) Firewall
2 7 (5.30%) SAN
3 6 (4.55%) DNS
3 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.03%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.03%) Network Security
5 3 (2.27%) VPN
6 2 (1.52%) NAS
6 2 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.76%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.76%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.76%) SSL
7 1 (0.76%) VSAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) Power BI
1 9 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.79%) Big Data
4 5 (3.79%) MySQL
5 4 (3.03%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.03%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.76%) DB2
8 1 (0.76%) Metadata
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.76%) Parquet
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (26.52%) Jenkins
2 29 (21.97%) JIRA
3 26 (19.70%) GitLab
4 14 (10.61%) Selenium
5 13 (9.85%) Cucumber
5 13 (9.85%) REST Assured
6 12 (9.09%) Postman
7 11 (8.33%) Git
8 5 (3.79%) Gatling
8 5 (3.79%) JMeter
8 5 (3.79%) TestRail
9 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.03%) LoadRunner
9 4 (3.03%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (2.27%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.27%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.52%) JUnit
11 2 (1.52%) Maven
11 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 42 (31.82%) Finance
3 25 (18.94%) Banking
4 9 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Law
6 4 (3.03%) Legal
7 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (20.45%) Lead
2 22 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.61%) Architect
4 10 (7.58%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (7.58%) Test Engineer
5 8 (6.06%) Developer
6 7 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Test Leader
8 5 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.79%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (3.79%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Senior
8 5 (3.79%) Test Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Test Automation Architect
9 4 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) OpenID
2 24 (18.18%) REST
3 22 (16.67%) LDAP
4 16 (12.12%) SailPoint
5 10 (7.58%) OAuth
6 9 (6.82%) SAML
7 7 (5.30%) .NET
7 7 (5.30%) Middleware
8 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.79%) Kafka
9 5 (3.79%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.79%) Playwright
9 5 (3.79%) PySpark
10 4 (3.03%) ARM Templates
10 4 (3.03%) RESTful
11 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.27%) FIDO
11 3 (2.27%) HTML
11 3 (2.27%) JSON
11 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.30%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.79%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.03%) IoT
8 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.52%) Replication
10 1 (0.76%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.76%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.39%) Linux
2 8 (6.06%) VMS
3 7 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.55%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (4.55%) Windows
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 3 (2.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.55%) DevOps
2 70 (53.03%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.24%) Containerisation
4 28 (21.21%) Agile
4 28 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 25 (18.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (15.91%) DevSecOps
7 21 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (15.91%) Observability
8 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (14.39%) Analytics
9 19 (14.39%) Migration
10 18 (13.64%) AI
10 18 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
10 18 (13.64%) ETL
11 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.12%) Microservices
12 16 (12.12%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.58%) Python
2 35 (26.52%) Java
3 29 (21.97%) SQL
4 15 (11.36%) Bash
5 13 (9.85%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.55%) Go
8 5 (3.79%) PHP
9 4 (3.03%) Cypher
9 4 (3.03%) Groovy
9 4 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.03%) Scala
9 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.27%) Bicep
10 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.52%) C#
12 1 (0.76%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.55%) Degree
1 6 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.79%) OCP
2 5 (3.79%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.03%) CISSP
3 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.27%) CCSP
4 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.27%) CISM
5 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.52%) CCSK
5 2 (1.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) CCA
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.76%) NCDA
6 1 (0.76%) NCIE
6 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.79%) NIST
4 4 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.03%) SLA
4 4 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Docker
2 15 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.30%) NFS
4 7 (5.30%) vSphere
5 5 (3.79%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.76%) Ceph
8 1 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.76%) KVM
8 1 (0.76%) SRDF
8 1 (0.76%) XenApp
8 1 (0.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 32 (24.24%) Terraform
3 22 (16.67%) Ansible
4 11 (8.33%) Grafana
5 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.55%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.76%) Puppet
9 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.91%) Google
3 20 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.58%) Databricks
4 10 (7.58%) VMware
5 9 (6.82%) Oracle
6 8 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.06%) Splunk
7 7 (5.30%) NetApp
7 7 (5.30%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.03%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.27%) Aruba
9 3 (2.27%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.27%) IBM
9 3 (2.27%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.52%) EMC
10 2 (1.52%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.52%) Veeam